document the difference in behavior in code completion between selecting items with tab or enter

class Thing {
  int firstOne;
  int secondOne;
  Thing(this.secondOne);
}

Place your cursor between ‘Thing(’ and ‘this’ i.e. Thing([CURSOR]this.secondOne) Type this., press Tab and notice how you end up with:

Thing(this.firstOne.secondOne); instead of Thing(this.firstOne[CURSOR]this.secondOne);

Or maybe even better would be Thing(this.firstOne, [CURSOR]this.secondOne); since it should be able to tell what I’m doing. 😃

@pq told me to start filing these cases where IntelliJ autocomplete unexpectedly eats things after my cursor.

I feel like I’m used to other auto-complete systems never affecting anything after my cursor, but maybe I’m remembering wrong?

[devoncarew]

I think the resolution here is to better document that there’s a difference in behavior in how you select items from the completion dialog.

[eseidelGoogle]

TIL “tab-complete” and “return-complete” are different things in IntelliJ. And command-shift-return-complete is a whole 'nother can-o-worms.